[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Unknown armed individuals have attacked the house of the Afghan cricket athlete Hamid Hassan in Jalalabad city, the placid provincial capital of Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province.
The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) in a statement said the incident took place late on Monday night after armed individuals hurled hand grenade on the residence of Hamid Hassan in the city.
The statement further added that Hassan has survived the attack unhurt but the attack has caused some damages to his property.
The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) ruled out the involvement of the terror groups in the attack and said the criminal gangs had earlier demanded money from the family of Hassan.
The criminal gangs had also warned the family of Hassan of attacks in case they did not receive the money, ACB said, adding that the family of Hassan had also informed the security authorities regarding the threats.
According to ACB, the attack on Monday night was carried out almost two weeks after the family of Hassan had received threats from the criminal gangs.
The Cricket Board of Afghanistan strongly condemned the attack and called a raid on a major source of happiness of the Afghan people.
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[RADIOSHABELLE] The murderous al Qaeda affiliate al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... is making millions of dollars each year by exploiting foreign aid money sent to Somalia by the very western nations who are trying to eliminate the terror group.
A CNN investigation has revealed how money given directly by the United Nations
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[Al Ahram] Egypt's Armed Forces launched on Monday a number of hotlines for citizens to "report murderous Moslems and places where they are suspected to be," according to a statement by the military. See something, say something.
The launch comes as part of ongoing efforts by the Armed Forces and police to "eliminate terrorist hotspots and protect the state's borders in all strategic directions."
Citizens can also report attempts of infiltration and smuggling across the country’s borders.
"The Armed Forces urge the Egyptian people to cooperate and provide accurate information that would help relevant authorities to detect, monitor and apprehend criminals and bring them to justice in accordance with the law," the statement concluded.
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[IsraelTimes] Germany’s development minister is heading to a conference on Iraq reconstruction in Kuwait with the message that the country is growing safe enough that refugees should start to consider moving home from Europe.
Gerd Mueller says in a statement that with recent victories over the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... bully boy group, Germany is committed to help rebuild destroyed villages and cities in order to create the "conditions for the Iraqi refugees in Germany to return to their homeland."
He says "the security situation is already allowing the return of internally displaced persons."
Mueller says he will meet with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to discuss the "possibility of closer cooperation for the return of refugees from Germany" and Berlin’s "expectations."
He says the impetus for reconstruction needs to come from the Iraqi government.
[Ynet] Poland's prime minister has visited a school and clinic for Syrian refugees in northern Leb, reiterating his country's position that aiding those uprooted by the war should take place closer to their home.
In a statement Tuesday, Mateusz Morawiecki's office said he has declared $10 million to help Leb build housing for 1,000 refugees
from Syria. Morawiecki said aid to refugees close to the countries they want to return to is the most efficient form of aid.
Citing security concerns, Poland's conservative government rejected a European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... plan to distribute refugees currently in Greece and Italia to countries around Europe. Poland has come under criticism and warning of sanctions from EU leaders.
Leb hosts over 1 million Syrian refugees and asks the international community to share the burden
[Al Ahram] President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey... on Tuesday warned foreign energy companies not to "overstep the mark" in the Mediterranean, after The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... 's warships blocked an Italian drilling vessel seeking to begin exploration for gas off Cyprus. Watch out for the Ottoman Slap®!
The growing standoff between Turkey and Cyprus over exploiting energy resources in the eastern Mediterranean risks further complicating stalled efforts to reunify the island following the collapse of peace talks last year.
"Don't think that we have ignored the opportunistic attempts to search for natural gas in Cyprus waters and Aegean coast," Erdogan said in a televised speech to his party in parliament.
"We warn those overstepping the mark with miscalculations in Cyprus and the Aegean," Erdogan added.
Italia's energy giant ENI said its ship had been ordered to stop by Ottoman Turkish ships last week over "military activities in the destination area" as it was on course to start exploring in block 3 of Cyprus's exclusive economic zone.
Cyprus has been divided since 1974 when Ottoman Turkish troops invaded and occupied the northern third of the island in response to a Greek military junta-sponsored coup.
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Some days, My feelings for Erdogan range from letting him be disappointed by Russia or Iran or anyone. But the past few nights I decided to set him free in the Mediterranean.
On one of those tents the homeless now buy to float around in.
This is a Kings dilemma. Missing a former Ally and worried it defects to something.
But then it defects to no win ever things for the sake of a form of ideology. Islam.
And then I hear the conversations in Europe about the Rogue state as Merkel ties into it destroying the entirety of it with Immigrants sponsored by guess who?
[DAWN] The United States and its European allies have tabled a motion with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) with a view to placing Pakistain on a watchlist of countries considered non-compliant with global anti-terror financing measures, an exclusive Rooters report said on Tuesday.
Miftah Ismail, Pakistain's de facto finance minister, told the news agency that the US and UK had nominated Pakistain to be put on the watchdog’s international money-laundering and terror-financing ’grey list’ a few weeks ago, before La Belle France and Germany joined them as co-sponsors.
"We are now working with the US, UK, Germany and La Belle France for the nomination to be withdrawn," Ismail, who is the adviser to the prime minister on finance, revenue and economic affairs, told Rooters. "We are also quite hopeful that even if the US did not withdraw the nomination that we will prevail and not be put on the watchlist."
The motion against Pakistain could be adopted at the FATF meeting scheduled to take place in Gay Paree from February 18 to 23.
The FATF maintains grey and black lists for identifying countries with weak measures to combat money laundering and terror financing. The watchdog does not have the powers to impose sanctions on a country found not meeting the required standards. However, some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves... its listing can affect international transactions from the country concerned as those would then become subject to greater scrutiny.
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[DAWN] Inter-Services Intelligence ...the Pak military intelligence agency that controls the military -- heads of ISI typically get promoted into the Chief of Army Staff position. It serves as a general command center for favored turban groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad, tries to influence the politix of neighboring countries, and carries out a (usually) low-level war against India in Kashmir... (ISI) and Military Intelligence (MI) did not cooperate with the Intelligence Bureau (IB) to trace the origin of a leaked call that disclosed the disbursement of certain amounts to the participants of the Faizabad sit-in, an IB official told the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday.
Speaking before Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui, IB Joint Director General Anwar Ali said civil agencies had expressed their inability to identify the caller, whereas ISI and MI did not respond to IB’s request seeking identification of the caller.
The unknown caller spoke about the Faizabad sit-in staged in November last year with someone on phone.
He commented on different aspects of the sit-in and the flawed policy to handle the protesters.
He also named certain personalities that disbursed money among the protesters.
In the written reply submitted to the IHC, the IB stated: "Contact was made to the [ISI] at responsible level, but no response was received." The response of MI was also the same.
The IB said the Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Forensic Science Agency and the National Forensic Science Agency lacked facilities to trace the caller while the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) also showed its incapability to handle such a matter.
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[DAWN] Pakistain will have to pay for Saturday’s bad boy attack on an Indian army camp in Sunjuwan in Jammu, Indian Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman warned on Monday, a day after Islamabad urged New Delhi not to whip up war hysteria.
Ms Sitharaman alleged that the attack in Sunjuwan was carried out by Jaish-e-Mohammed bad boys. She added that the perpetrators were assisted by Pakistain.
Addressing a presser over the security situation in Jammu, she said JeM chief Masood Azhar was the criminal mastermind of the attack while there was also local support to the assault.
On Sunday, Pakistain’s foreign ministry strongly rejected similar allegations voiced by the Indian media.
"A particular section in the Indian media runs with their innuendos to malign Pakistain and whips up public frenzy. We are confident that the world community would take due cognisance of India’s smear campaign against Pakistain, and the deliberate creation of war hysteria," the foreign ministry statement said.
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[Al Ahram] Pakistain has quietly amended its anti-terror laws to ban those listed as forces of Evil by the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... , a move which paves the way for Islamabad to proceed against suspected criminal masterminds of the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
The change was made by President Mamnoon Hussain on Friday, and published by the law ministry late Monday.
"The amendment means that all individuals and entities listed by the United Nations also stand banned under Pak laws now," a senior government official told AFP.
He declined to say what actions were being taken after the change, and analysts said it was unclear why it was needed when Pakistain is already a member of the UN.
The move comes after Washington piled pressure on Pakistain last November to take action against Hafiz Saeed ...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat... , the alleged criminal mastermind of the Mumbai attacks which killed 166 people, after he was released from house arrest in the eastern city of Lahore.
Pakistain says there is not enough evidence to charge him, and denies harbouring krazed killers.
However, today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... the White House has said that freeing him "belies Pak claims that it will not provide sanctuary for terrorists".
Security analyst Amir Rana said the Pak move may have been in anticipation of the meeting in Gay Paree next week of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), an inter-governmental organization to combat money laundering and terrorist financing.
Observers say Pakistain fears being put on money laundering and terrorist financing lists.
Saeed heads the charity Jamaat-ud-Dawa ...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba... (JuD), believed to be a front for Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... (LeT), a krazed killer group that battles Indian troops in disputed Kashmire and was blamed for the Mumbai attacks.
Six Americans were among those killed during the three-day siege in Mumbai, when button men who arrived by sea sparked battles with Indian commandos.
The drama brought nuclear-armed India and Pakistain to the brink of war.
Saeed, who has a $10 million US bounty on his head, has denied involvement. He was listed by the UN in December 2008 for being associated with LeT, as well as having links to the al-Qaeda terror network and Talibs.
JuD is similarly listed by the UN as a terrorist group. No officials from the charity were immediately available for comment.
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[Ynet] Abdallah Abushawesh, member of the Paleostinian delegation to the UN, tells visiting Canadian students 'We're experts at throwing stones, we are very proud to do that,' adding he 'never missed an opportunity to throw stones' during the first intifada.
A Paleostinian diplomat speaking to students at the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... headquarters in New York told them the Paleostinians were proud to be throwing stones at Israeli forces and will continue teaching their children to do so.
In a recording obtained by Ynet, Abdallah Abushawesh, who serves as a senior adviser to the UN's Development Group and as a member of the Paleostinian UN mission, is heard saying in broken English, "We are very clever and very expert at throwing the stones. We are very proud to do that. We will not stop to learn our kids (to do that)."
To the sound of sniggering from his listeners, Abushawesh went on to say that every Paleostinian caught throwing stones by Israel gets sent to jail. "We are very proud that we are stone throwers. I'm one of them. Now I became a little bit older, but I stay resistant in the name of my kids," he continued.
The Paleostinian diplomat later told the students about his own past as a stone-thrower during the first intifada. "I was in high school. I never missed an opportunity to throw stones. This is our life. We develop our resistance every day. We're proud of it," he said.
Abushawesh was speaking to a group of international relations students from McGill University who were at the UN for a tour and a series of meetings as part of their program.
The students also met with Paleostinian envoy to the UN, Riyad Mansour, who told them about Paleostinian efforts to be recognized as a state by the UN.
"There's a country in the Security Council, the US, which won't allow us to realize what's ours, and it is blocking us for political and ideological reasons, and not for legal reasons," Mansour said.
Israel's Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, slammed Abushawesh's comments, saying, "The Paleostinians are no longer trying to hide the truth. The Paleostinian leadership and its representatives are inciting against Israel and openly encouraging terrorism. The international community must not allow it."
"It cannot be that inside the UN, which is supposed to make peace and protect human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... , a diplomat will incite to violence and terrorism, which wound and even kill innocent Israelis," Danon added.
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We? What do you mean "we"? We have no horse in this race. Who cares what the Israelites and Palestinians do to each other? All of them together aren't worth a single American life.
There’s the overhand cricket style, underhand softball style, and that thing that pitchers do in baseball — when to use which? — even before learning to use to use the traditional shepherd’s sling that predate’s King David, European Conservative. Wikipedia has an actual article about Palestinian stone throwing, which does not have a good picture of Palestinian men whirling slings almost as long as they are tall — this is a weapon of war.
[BBC] French President Emmanuel Macron has threatened to "strike" Syria if proof emerges that its government is using chemical weapons against civilians.
"We will strike the place where these launches are made or where they are organised," he told reporters.
But Mr Macron said French intelligence had so far found no evidence that banned chemical weapons had been used. His comments follow numerous reports of suspected chlorine attacks in Syria since early January.
Nine people were treated for breathing difficulties after a bomb believed to be filled with the chemical was dropped on a rebel-held town earlier this month.
The Syrian opposition said a government helicopter dropped the bomb on Saraqeb, in the north-western province of Idlib.
The Syrian government strongly denies using chemical weapons and says it does not target civilians.
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If it ever happens it will be a symbolic strike.
First it was American spy squirrels in Iran, then Egypt suffered from Israeli spy dolphins or sharks (I don’t remember which) in the Red Sea, then Israeli spy herons were shot down in Jordan or Lebanon... Clearly Allah has chosen to permit his believers to be harassed for reasons of his own.
[Al Ahram] The former chief-of-staff of Iran's armed forces said Tuesday that Western spies had used lizards which could "attract atomic waves" to spy on the country's nuclear programme. "Unh! Godzirra! Let's run!"
Hassan Firuzabadi, senior military advisor to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was responding to questions from local media on the recent arrest of environmentalists.
He said he did not know the details of the cases, but that the West had often used tourists, scientists and environmentalists to spy on Iran.
"Several years ago, some individuals came to Iran to collect aid for Paleostine... We were suspicious of the route they chose," he told the reformist ILNA news agency.
"In their possessions were a variety of reptile desert species like lizards, chameleons... We found out that their skin attracts atomic waves and that they were nuclear spies who wanted to find out where inside the Islamic republic of Iran we have uranium mines and where we are engaged in atomic activities," he said.
His comments came after news that a leading Iranian-Canadian environmentalist, Kavous Seyed Emami, had died in prison after he was incarcerated Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! along with other members of his wildlife NGO last month.
The deputy head of the Environmental Protection Organisation, Kaveh Madani, was also reportedly detained temporarily over the weekend.
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[Institute for the Study of War] Iranian military cooperation with Russia in Syria is dramatically increasing Tehran's ability to plan and conduct complex conventional operations. Iranians are learning by seeing and by doing, and are consciously trying to capture lessons-learned in Syria for use throughout their military and para-military forces. Iran is fielding a conventional force capability to complement and in some cases supplant its reliance on asymmetric means of combat. Russia is assisting Iran's military leadership conduct this effort. It is introducing Iran and its proxies to signature Russian campaign-design concepts such as cauldron battles, multiple simultaneous and successive operations, and frontal aviation in Syria. These concepts are the fruit of almost a century of advanced Soviet and Russian thought and hard-won experience in conventional military operations. This knowledge-transfer can help the Iranian military advance its understanding of conventional war far more rapidly than it might otherwise be able to do. It can help Iran become a formidable conventional military power in the Middle East in relatively short order, permanently changing the balance of power and the security environment in the region. ...
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Sure but then the populstion isn't exactly reliable. As hard as the mullahs are trying to replace the population, they'll have moderate whatever Napoleonic mbitions they have.
Sure the Iranians are formidible but they're not not invincible.
[IsraelTimes] Head of Iran-sponsored Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba says his organization will stand in a 'single front' with terror group against Jewish state
The head of the powerful Iraqi Shiite militia Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba pledged on Tuesday to stand alongside its Lebanese ally Hezbollah if a new war breaks out with Israel.
Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba and Hezbollah have fought side-by-side to bolster Syrian government troops since 2013, most prominently against the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... terror group in eastern Syria.
On Tuesday, the movement’s secretary general Akram al-Kaabi visited the tomb of top Hezbollah terror commander Imad Mughniyeh to commemorate the 10 years since his death.
"We in the Iraqi resistance stand with Hezbollah, and we will stand with Hezbollah in any Israeli attack or action against it," Kaabi said.
He pledged to fight "with Hezbollah in a single row, on a single front, just as we stood with them on a single front in Iraq or Syria."
Kaabi spoke in Beirut’s southern suburbs, where Hezbollah has a strong support base.
Both Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba and Hezbollah are backed by Iran. They fought alongside Syrian government troops and other allied groups to oust IS from key cities in eastern Syria last year, including Albu Kamal.
Hezbollah has also dispatched top commanders and advisers to Iraq to help the paramilitary Hashed al-Shaabi force.
In June, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah warned that hundreds of thousands of Arab and Moslem fighters would be ready to fight against Israel in a future war.
It "would open the door for hundreds of thousands of fighters from all around the Arab and Islamic world to participate in this fight ‐ from Iraq, Yemen, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistain," he said.
Kaabi is the second top Iraqi militia leader in recent months to come to Leb in a show of support to Hezbollah.
Senior Hashed commander Qais al-Khazali, who heads the Asaib Ahl al-Haq militia, visited southern Leb in December.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...
Erdogan referenced the comment in his remarks to parliament led by his Justice and Development party.
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[DAWN] Pakistain will have to pay for Saturday’s
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Meanwhile the west continues to water the tree of Islam. 
[BBC] French President Emmanuel Macron has threatened to "strike" Syria if proof emerges that its government is using chemical weapons against civilians.
[Al Ahram] The former chief-of-staff of Iran's armed forces said Tuesday that Western spies had used lizards which could "attract atomic waves" to spy on the country's nuclear programme.
